Filmography Highlights
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Tetro
2009- Rated:
- 15
Bennie turns up on the doorstep of his long-lost brother Tetro, sparking his frustrated creative ambitions. The pair then enter a theatre festival, in this drama from Francis Ford Coppola
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Youth Without Youth
2007- Rated:
- TBC
A linguistics professor gets a new lease of life in Francis Ford Coppola's first film in 10 years
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A Decade Under The Influence
2003- Rated:
- TBC
"You got a gun? Suck on this!" Comprehensive documentary explaining how the majors were held hostage by righteous movie brats during the 1970s
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Apocalypse Now Redux
2001- Rated:
- X
Francis Ford Coppola's legendary Vietnam epic, now with 50 extra minutes of footage. Only a restored sequence set in a French plantation truly enhances our understanding of the film
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Supernova
2000- Rated:
- 15
Although credited to a pseudonymous Lee, this science fiction blockbuster was actually a combined effort by Walter Hill (who departed before the end of filming), Jack Sholder (who was brought in to t
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The Virgin Suicides
1999- Rated:
- 15
Francis Ford's little girl Sofia Coppola buries her Godfather Part III acting disaster with this haunting writer/director foray. A beautiful, elegaic reverie on urban adolescence, sexual awakening and tragedy set to an Air soundtrack
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Kurosawa: The Last Emperor
1999- Rated:
- TBC
Close friends, family and a host of great directors pay tribute to Japan's greatest filmmaker in Alex Cox's short but ever so sweet documentary
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John Grisham's The Rainmaker
1997- Rated:
- TBC
A young lawyer finds himself taking on a major health insurance company. Adaptation of John Grisham's first novel starring Matt Damon, Danny DeVito and Claire Danes
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Jack
1996- Rated:
- PG
Coppola wastes his talents and Robin Williams provides more evidence against his in this embarassing comedy about a boy with an ageing disorder
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Don Juan de Marco
1995- Rated:
- TBC
Depp is the prolific lover and Brando his psychiatrist in this feel-good comedy about the interplay of love, fantasy and delusion
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Mary Shelley's Frankenstein
1994- Rated:
- 15
Kenneth Branagh's monster flop - over the top and frenetic, but often moving. Features a fine performance from Robert De Niro
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
1992- Rated:
- 18
Gary Oldman is a dapper Drac, brooding for centuries over the suicide of wife Winona Ryder, now reincarnated as fiancee to Keanu Reeves. Francis Ford Coppola's adaptation of the horror classic
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The Godfather Part III
1990- Rated:
- 15
Coppola's saga reaches its conclusion as Michael Corleone struggles to legitimize his business and come to grips with the sins of his past. Al Pacino, Diane Keaton and Andy Garcia star
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New York Stories
1989- Rated:
- 15
Three directors associated with the Big Apple get to direct a segment based in the city.
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Tucker: The Man and His Dream
1988- Rated:
- PG
Coppola is arguably the most significant and exhilarating talent in post-60s 'Hollywood', and hopefully the critical obsession with just a couple of his biggest movies will one day give understanding
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Gardens Of Stone
1987- Rated:
- 15
James Caan and Anjelica Huston star in Francis Ford Coppola's sombre drama about the American home front during the Vietnam War
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Peggy Sue Got Married
1986- Rated:
- 15
Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage star in this charming mid-life crisis/time-travel/high-school romance comedy from Francis Ford Coppola
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Cotton Club, The
1984- Rated:
- 15
The Cotton Club is yet another troubled Coppola production, with mighty backstage bitching and budget abuse. Producer Evans (who was investigated for murder during the 22-month shoot) would later cal
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Rumble Fish
1983- Rated:
- 18
With a cast of fresh-faced talent, delicious B&W cinematography and Coppola directing, what could go wrong with this version of SE Hinton's saga of doomed youth? Only most of their subsequent careers
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Outsiders, The
1983- Rated:
- TBC
Teenage gang conflict and rites of passage in Tulsa, Oklahoma, from Francis Ford Coppola
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Koyaanisqatsi
1983- Rated:
- TBC
A nature film of epic proportions containing neither dialogue nor plot. Disparate images - Hopi Indian cave paintings, clouds, waves, mountain ranges - are segued together to offer an impressionist account of contemporary America
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Apocalypse Now
1979- Rated:
- X
Martin Sheen journeys through Vietnam and Cambodia to terminate flipped-out renegade US colonel Marlon Brando.
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The Godfather Part II
1974- Rated:
- X
With the second instalment of the Mafia trilogy, Francis Ford Coppola weaves the characters from The Godfather into a deeply personal film that betters the original for pathos and sheer epic grandeur
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Great Gatsby, The
1974- Rated:
- PG
Patchy adaptation of Fitzgerald's classic jazz-age tale of love, loss and excess, which, although it hovers near the edge, never really dives deep enough into the psyche of its complicated characters
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The Conversation
1974- Rated:
- AA
A classic of unostentatious cinema from Coppola. In one of his finest roles, Gene Hackman portrays a surveillance expert whose work begins to challenge his morality - and sanity
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